If you are going to…
…be in the loan for a while, consider paying to ‘buy’ your interest rate down. Your monthly payments will be lower, and eventually the savings will add up to the point that they make up for the expense of buying the rate down. If you are refinancing, points can be rolled into the new loan.
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